Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today's high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth w sweeping the planet. And once again, they provide a penetrating, coherent way to make sense of the seemingly senseless. Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is t just about money, and cant be understood in terms of industrial-age ecomics. Thus they write here about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to what they call our third job --the unticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in our country. They show the hidden connections between extreme sports, chocolate chip cookies, Linux software and the surplus complexity in our lives as society wobbles back and forth between depressing decadence and a hopeful post-decadence. In their earlier work, the Tofflers coined the word prosumer for people who consume what they themselves produce. In Revolutionary Wealth they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities--whether parenting or volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council or even mashing music--pump free lunch from the hidden n-money ecomy into the money ecomy that ecomists track. Prosuming, they forecast, is about to explode and compel radical changes in the way we measure, make and manipulate wealth. Blazing with fresh ideas, Revolutionary Wealth provides readers with powerful new tools for thinking about--and preparing for--their future.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN-10
0375401741
ISBN-13
9780375401749
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183208437
Product Key Features
Author
Heidi Toffler
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Economics: Professional & General
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York
Date of Publication
25/06/2006
Edition Statement
Annotated Edition
Country of Publication
United States
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